Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 87 52
Rank change year-on-year -26 -35 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,259 1,962 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.38% 2.89% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 3.48% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 802 1,090 2,050
10th Percentile £52,400 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,375 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% -8.83% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £119,875 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +6.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,732 56,416 49,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 83.00% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,268 29,481 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 1,174 £75,000 +7.14% 1,243
London +6 678 £85,000 -1.73% 683
UK excluding London -67 541 £70,000 +7.69% 662
Work from Home -17 506 £70,000 +3.70% 836
North of England -25 208 £70,000 +14.37% 198
North West +3 135 £70,000 +12.00% 131
South East -79 118 £70,000 +3.70% 183
Midlands +29 73 £70,000 +7.69% 91
Yorkshire -35 60 £75,000 +25.00% 43
South West -49 52 £62,500 - 77
West Midlands +26 45 £70,000 +7.69% 54
Scotland -48 45 £64,500 -0.77% 38
East of England -4 40 £66,500 +2.31% 46
East Midlands +6 26 £70,000 -6.67% 37
North East -10 13 £52,600 -4.36% 24
Wales -8 7 £52,000 -5.45% 18
Northern Ireland -16 2 £45,000 -30.77% 16

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (2.54%) Confluence
3 28 (2.22%) Apache
4 26 (2.07%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.03%) CMS
7 12 (0.95%) Appian
7 12 (0.95%) JBoss
8 6 (0.48%) nginx
8 6 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.40%) IIS
9 5 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 15 (1.19%) Maya
2 8 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.64%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.56%) Endur
5 4 (0.32%) Shopify
6 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.079%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 675 (53.61%) AWS
2 584 (46.39%) Azure
3 207 (16.44%) GCP
4 176 (13.98%) Serverless
5 142 (11.28%) SaaS
6 133 (10.56%) GitHub
7 122 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
9 75 (5.96%) Amazon S3
10 67 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
12 57 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (4.13%) PaaS
15 44 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (3.18%) Power Platform
17 39 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
19 31 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (2.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.87%) Network Security
2 10 (0.79%) HTTP
3 9 (0.71%) Firewall
4 7 (0.56%) AMQP
5 6 (0.48%) WAN
6 3 (0.24%) Broadband
6 3 (0.24%) DNS
6 3 (0.24%) Internet
6 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.16%) Multicast
7 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.079%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.079%) MQTT
8 1 (0.079%) SNMP
8 1 (0.079%) SSL
8 1 (0.079%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.61%) NoSQL
2 164 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
3 156 (12.39%) MongoDB
4 134 (10.64%) SQL Server
5 92 (7.31%) Relational Database
6 62 (4.92%) DynamoDB
6 62 (4.92%) MySQL
7 50 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
9 34 (2.70%) Big Data
9 34 (2.70%) Redis
10 33 (2.62%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (1.27%) Power BI
14 13 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (0.79%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.79%) Tableau
16 8 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 176 (13.98%) Git
2 120 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.77%) JUnit
4 59 (4.69%) JIRA
5 55 (4.37%) GitLab
6 49 (3.89%) Selenium
7 40 (3.18%) Mockito
8 35 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 33 (2.62%) JMeter
10 22 (1.75%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.67%) Maven
12 15 (1.19%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.03%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.95%) Snyk
14 12 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.87%) git-flow
15 11 (0.87%) Robot Framework
15 11 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 406 (32.25%) Finance
2 335 (26.61%) Social Skills
3 198 (15.73%) Law
4 182 (14.46%) Banking
5 143 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (6.51%) Public Sector
8 64 (5.08%) Marketing
9 63 (5.00%) Retail
10 52 (4.13%) Financial Institution
11 36 (2.86%) Games
12 31 (2.46%) Billing
13 30 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (2.30%) Back Office
15 25 (1.99%) Dutch Language
15 25 (1.99%) French Language
16 24 (1.91%) Front Office
16 24 (1.91%) Legal
17 21 (1.67%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 426 (33.84%) Developer
2 286 (22.72%) Software Engineer
3 260 (20.65%) Senior
4 230 (18.27%) Lead
5 224 (17.79%) Architect
6 119 (9.45%) Java Developer
7 112 (8.90%) Java Engineer
8 111 (8.82%) .NET Developer
9 110 (8.74%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (6.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 80 (6.35%) Senior Developer
12 74 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 71 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 71 (5.64%) Lead Developer
14 56 (4.45%) Lead Software Engineer
15 52 (4.13%) Software Developer
16 47 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 42 (3.34%) C# Developer
18 40 (3.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 40 (3.18%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (26.45%) .NET
2 285 (22.64%) RESTful
3 262 (20.81%) Spring
4 249 (19.78%) React
5 241 (19.14%) Kafka
6 221 (17.55%) Spring Boot
7 208 (16.52%) REST
8 146 (11.60%) AngularJS
9 135 (10.72%) .NET Core
10 119 (9.45%) Node.js
11 116 (9.21%) HTML
12 83 (6.59%) Web Services
13 81 (6.43%) .NET Framework
13 81 (6.43%) CSS
14 78 (6.20%) ASP.NET
15 73 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
16 72 (5.72%) Hibernate
17 69 (5.48%) ASP.NET Web API
18 65 (5.16%) Entity Framework
19 56 (4.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 366 (29.07%) Cloud Native
2 192 (15.25%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (8.34%) Product Ownership
4 93 (7.39%) Enterprise Software
5 59 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 41 (3.26%) Virtual Team
8 39 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
9 38 (3.02%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.70%) Mobile App
10 34 (2.70%) Onboarding
11 32 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
11 32 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (2.22%) Management Information System
13 27 (2.14%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.75%) AI Agents
14 22 (1.75%) Low-Code
15 19 (1.51%) Client/Server
16 17 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
17 16 (1.27%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.85%) Linux
2 32 (2.54%) Windows
3 12 (0.95%) Android
4 7 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.16%) CentOS
6 2 (0.16%) Debian
6 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.16%) VMS
7 1 (0.079%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (52.50%) Agile
2 599 (47.58%) CI/CD
3 504 (40.03%) DevOps
4 453 (35.98%) Software Engineering
5 267 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 247 (19.62%) AI
7 241 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 230 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
9 226 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 205 (16.28%) TDD
11 202 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 200 (15.89%) Event-Driven
13 194 (15.41%) SDLC
14 174 (13.82%) Roadmaps
15 173 (13.74%) Test Automation
16 150 (11.91%) Fintech
16 150 (11.91%) Scrum
17 139 (11.04%) Computer Science
18 138 (10.96%) Architectural Patterns
18 138 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 481 (38.20%) Java
2 343 (27.24%) C#
3 304 (24.15%) Python
4 300 (23.83%) SQL
5 259 (20.57%) JavaScript
6 181 (14.38%) TypeScript
7 62 (4.92%) Go
8 49 (3.89%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 22 (1.75%) PHP
11 21 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.67%) Scala
12 19 (1.51%) Rust
13 18 (1.43%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.27%) C++
15 14 (1.11%) C
16 11 (0.87%) Ruby
17 10 (0.79%) Bash
18 8 (0.64%) Bicep
19 6 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 169 (13.42%) Degree
2 108 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 99 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 64 (5.08%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.37%) Master's Degree
7 38 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 34 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (2.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.64%) PMP
13 7 (0.56%) CISM
13 7 (0.56%) CISSP
14 6 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.31%) QA
2 34 (2.70%) GDPR
3 22 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 12 (0.95%) NIST
5 12 (0.95%) SLA
6 11 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.64%) IFRS
8 8 (0.64%) IFRS 17
8 8 (0.64%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.56%) EMIR
10 6 (0.48%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.40%) SEPA
12 4 (0.32%) NCSC
13 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.24%) WCAG
14 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (30.98%) Docker
2 15 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) HDFS
6 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.16%) vSphere
7 1 (0.079%) KVM
7 1 (0.079%) Postfix
7 1 (0.079%) Xen
Systems Management
1 418 (33.20%) Kubernetes
2 171 (13.58%) Terraform
3 57 (4.53%) Grafana
4 41 (3.26%) Ansible
5 32 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.46%) Kibana
7 15 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.11%) Argo
9 8 (0.64%) Mesos
10 6 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.40%) Puppet
12 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.16%) Istio
13 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.079%) CFEngine
14 1 (0.079%) Nagios
Vendors
1 200 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.16%) Oracle
3 35 (2.78%) Guidewire
4 30 (2.38%) Google
4 30 (2.38%) Splunk
5 26 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 24 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.83%) SAP
8 19 (1.51%) BiZZdesign
9 18 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.11%) VMware
11 12 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.87%) Black Duck
12 11 (0.87%) UiPath
13 10 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (0.79%) Duck Creek
13 10 (0.79%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.79%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.79%) ServiceNow